Dawa norbu wiki

Dr Tashi Rabgey, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, in her keynote address, lauds Prof Dawa Norbu as the first modern Tibetan social scientist who in his long and quiet journey through the halls of academia had demonstrated the will to be disciplined by a different tradition of knowledge – to speak in a brand new way – so that a Tibetan could appear in a discursive space in which Tibetans had not previously been present.

This article appeared in the Special Issue 2018 edition of the Tibetan Review, published in association with the JNU Tibet Forum. Keynote address by Dr Tashi Rabgey at 2^nd annual symposium in memory of Prof.

Dawa Norbu organized on April 7, 2016.

It is an honor for me to share some reflections on Professor Dawa Norbu, a defining scholar of contemporary Tibetan affairs and a deeply respected – and indeed, beloved – intellectual of Tibetan exiled society.

Let me start today by commending the JNU Tibet Forum organi